15 Best Anthony Horowitz Books

Editor Susan Ryeland receives a new Atticus Pünd manuscript with a missing ending and realizes the unfinished mystery is hiding real secrets. As she investigates, the novel becomes a puzzle inside a puzzle, with clues split between fiction and reality.

A woman arranges her own funeral and is murdered hours later, and private investigator Daniel Hawthorne takes the case. Anthony Horowitz, as a character, is hired to write it up, and the narration turns the investigation into a sharp, meta whodunit.

Susan Ryeland is asked to solve a disappearance connected to an Atticus Pünd mystery, and the search takes her far from her desk. Reading the novel-within-the-novel, she finds clues that point to a real crime, and to real danger.

A man is found dead in a pub, apparently killed with a bottle of wine, and Hawthorne brings Horowitz along to chronicle the case. The clues point in multiple directions, and the solution hinges on details that look ordinary until Hawthorne reframes them.

At an exclusive literary festival, a woman is murdered in public, and Hawthorne suspects the crowd is full of motives. Horowitz follows him through interviews and alibis, as the case turns into a puzzle about jealousy, reputation, and carefully planted clues.

Detective Daniel Hawthorne is called to investigate a murder inside a close-knit community where everyone has a story and nobody tells the whole truth. With suspects limited and tensions high, Horowitz watches Hawthorne prise secrets out of ordinary lives.

Susan Ryeland is drawn back into Alan Conway’s world when a new mystery connected to an Atticus Pünd story refuses to stay on the page. As she follows the trail, Susan discovers how easily fiction can spill into real consequences.

When an anxious art dealer comes to Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes uncovers a chain of crimes that reaches into respectable Victorian society. Told in Watson’s voice, this authorized Holmes novel builds from street-level clues to a disturbing secret called the House of Silk.

A critic who publicly attacked Horowitz is found murdered, and the evidence seems to frame the author. Hawthorne investigates while Horowitz tries to prove his innocence, turning the case into a tense battle over truth, reputation, and motive.

A Hawthorne and Horowitz case told with the series’ trademark mix of clues and self-awareness. When a new investigation turns personal and messy, Hawthorne works in his usual secretive way, and Horowitz tries to keep up, and stay out of trouble.

A prequel Bond adventure that follows James Bond’s first steps as 007 as he takes over a previous agent’s operation. The mission forces him to learn the rules fast, from surveillance and seduction to sudden violence and hard choices.

In the wake of Sherlock Holmes’s apparent death, a Scotland Yard inspector and a Pinkerton agent chase the criminal forces Holmes once held back. Their pursuit leads deep into London’s underworld, where a new mastermind is already moving into place.

Fourteen-year-old Alex Rider learns his uncle was a spy and is pressured into working for MI6. His first mission takes him inside a tech billionaire’s Stormbreaker computer project, where a school-friendly giveaway hides a deadly plan.

After a brutal ordeal, James Bond returns to London and is questioned by his own colleagues, who suspect betrayal. Bond must clear his name while tracking a plot tied to old enemies and Cold War politics, where loyalty can be engineered and broken.

James Bond is back on duty after Goldfinger when a new enemy plans an audacious attack with global stakes. From high-speed danger to shadowy Cold War intrigue, Bond must race the clock and outmanoeuvre a villain who enjoys playing with fate.